Hotlinking, which is often labeled bandwidth theft also, refers to linking to images which are on another website. Basically, if you have a site with some images on it, someone else can also develop a website and rather than using their own images, they could put links straight to your images. Although this may not be such a major issue if you have one small personal Internet site, it shall be something rather serious if the images are copyrighted, because someone could be aiming to copy your Internet site and cheat people. If your hosting package deal has a limited monthly bandwidth quota, you can run out of resources without getting real site visitors, due to the fact that the traffic will be consumed by the other website. This is why you need to consider shielding your content from being hotlinked - not simply images, but also files, as in rare occasions other sorts of files are linked also.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

It won't take more than a number of mouse clicks to activate the hotlink protection feature that we provide even if this is the very first hosting account that you use, as all our cloud web hosting feature a very simple and user-friendly tool that will enable you to stop direct links to your content. The tool is an element of our advanced Hepsia Control Panel, so it features the exact same easy-to-use point & click interface. As soon as you log in to your account’s back office and visit the Hotlink Protection section, you will simply need to pick the domain or subdomain you want to protect from a drop-down list. If you want to enable this feature only for a particular website folder, you've got the option to do that. All Internet sites with enabled hotlink protection shall appear within this section and you can deactivate the service by selecting the checkbox alongside the given website and pressing the Delete button.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you open a semi-dedicated server account and you discover that somebody is linking to your files without your approval, you will be able to easily cut them off by switching on the hotlink security feature that we provide. While the common method of doing this is to set up an .htaccess file, we've got a special tool which can execute this automatically and you will only have to pick the Internet site in question and to choose whether our system should create the required file within the main folder or inside a subfolder. The tool is part of our custom made Hepsia CP and features exactly the same user-friendly interface, so you will be able to use it with no issues even in case you have never used any web hosting service before. You can turn off the hotlink security feature for any website/folder with a click through exactly the same section.